| Description |
xi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
1. The Age of Curriculum -- 2. English in the 1940s: A Service Course for the Professions -- 3. Cultural Ideal and School Systems: English in the 1970s -- 4. English under the Victorian Certificate of Education -- 5. Searching for the Scientist: Post-war Chemical Reform -- 6. Structural Chemistry and its Social Beneficiaries -- 7. Resisting Chemical Reform in the 1980s -- 8. Chemistry and the Victorian Certificate of Education -- 9. Traditional Mathematics -- 10. Reforming in the Shadow of the New Maths -- 11. Pedagogical Freedom and Institutional Power in Mathematics Reform -- 12. Mathematics for the Majority: Reform and Counter-Reform -- 13. Curriculum Hierarchy, Monopoly Access and the Export of Failure -- 14. Power over the Curriculum, Historical Progress and Structural Reform |
| Summary |
Investigates the conservation of certain cultural demands in Victorian schools against a background of profound educational and economic changes elsewhere. Containing strikingly original research, this is a most important professional and social history which contributes to the current debate about educational standards |
| Analysis |
Curriculum |
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Educational achievement |
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Educational assessment |
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Equality |
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Reform |
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Secondary education |
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State issue |
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Victoria |
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Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography (pages 247-265) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Academic achievement -- Social aspects -- Australia.
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Curriculum planning -- Social aspects -- Australia.
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Education -- History -- 20th century.
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Education -- Aims and objectives -- Australia.
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Education, Secondary -- Curricula -- Australia.
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Education, Secondary -- Curricula -- History -- Australia
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Educational sociology -- Australia.
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| Author |
Teese, Richard.
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| LC no. |
2001320827 |
| ISBN |
0522848966 |
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